Shailer Mathews famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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When a historian enters into metaphysics he has gone to a far country from whose bourne he will never return a historian.
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If it is more blessed to give than to receive, then most of us are content to let the other fellow have the greater blessing.
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An epigram is a half-truth so stated as to irritate the person who believes the other half.
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Love that seeks to do men good is cowardice when it refuses to prevent them from doing wrong.
-- Shailer Mathews
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American statesmen might like some Europeans more than others and even detect quaint resemblances to their own outlook; but they no more committed themselves to a particular group or country than a nineteenth-century missionary committed himself to the African tribe in which he happened to find himself.
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Josh: So, Toby, it’s election night. What do you say about a country that goes out of its way to protect even those citizens that try to destroy it? Toby: God bless America.
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A hero would die for his country, but he'd much rather live for it.
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It is always the young that make the change. You don't get these ideas when you're middle-aged. Young people have daring, creativity, imagination and personal computers. Above all, what you have as young people that's vitally needed to make social change, is impatience. You want it to happen now. There have to be enough people that say, ‘We want it now, in our lifetime.’ This is your moment. This is your opportunity. Be adventurists in the sense of being bold and daring. Be opportunists and seize this opportunity, this moment in history, to go out and save our country. It's your turn now.
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History does not eliminate grievances. It lays them down like landmines.
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We, while noting many things amiss about Victorian society, more often sense them judging us.
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Every age cuts and pastes history to suit its own purposes; art always has an ax to grind.
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Its all gone pretty fast. I dont want to move on, but I know I have to.
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Today, tomorrow," she said. "A day is nothing. A day is just a match you strike after the ten thousand matches before it have gone out.
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We cannot take one step in geology without drawing upon the fathomless stores of by-gone time.
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